Book ID: CBB495982580

Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima (2022)

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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette (Author)
Boudia, Soraya (Author)
Satŏ, Kyoko (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 343
Language: English

The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test) and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly affected world history and geopolitics, as well as our daily life and natural world. It has always been an instrument for national security, a marker of national sovereignty, a site of technological innovation and a promise of energy abundance. It has also introduced permanent pollution and the age of the Anthropocene. This volume presents a new perspective on nuclear history and politics by focusing on four interconnected themes–violence and survival; control and containment; normalizing through denial and presumptions; memories and futures–and exploring their relationships and consequences. It proposes an original reflection on nuclear technology from a long-term, comparative and transnational perspective. It brings together contributions from researchers from different disciplines (anthropology, history, STS) and countries (US, France, Japan) on a variety of local, national and transnational subjects. Finally, this book offers an important and valuable insight into other global and Anthropocene challenges such as climate change.

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Authors & Contributors
Matthew Cotton
Markku Lehtonen
Kasperski, Tatiana
Kōichirō Kokubun
Rubio-Varas, Maria del Mar
Tanja Penter
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology and politics
Nuclear and radioactive waste
Technology and society
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Japan
Europe
Kansas (U.S.)
Ukraine
Central Asia
Institutions
United States. Department of Energy
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
World Health Organization (WHO)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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